📢Applications are now being accepted for UPenn's Advanced Esophageal Fellowship! (start date 7/1/25) Details: ⬇️⬇️ pennmedicine.org/departments-an… ⭐️Required to complete general GI fellowship by 7/1/25 and love all things #esophagus! 📢

I am EXTREMELY proud to announce the 2024 UCSP Symposium this Friday July 26th. In addition to the 2024 UCSP class presenting their work, we will have alumni presenting work they have continued to do since the program. These students are changing the world!

5/ Our next speaker is Sophie Jatto from U Penn working with Shazia Siddique MD MS and looking at the use of race & ethnicity in clinical practice guidelines. This is critical work as it impacts ALL of our practice.

EoE warrants a personalized, thoughtful approach during transition to adult care. Dr Kristle Lee Lynch, MD | Gastroenterology @ UPenn | brings up some great points: 🗣️Conversations about transition of care should begin early! 🚧Unique barriers to care given its multidisciplinary nature (contd) #ANMS2024

Much of dementia—perhaps half—could be prevented or substantially delayed with attention to 14 modifiable risk factors The Lancet Commission 2024 report thelancet.com/journals/lance… New inclusion of cholesterol and vision loss as risk factors

Worth a full read. Sadly sexual harassment during training is such a common experience

(1) 📢 New American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Clinical Practice Update on Management of #IBD in Patients With #Malignancy 📢 cghjournal.org/article/S1542-… 🔥🔥An #IBD tweetorial on #Cancer for #GITwitter from Jordan Axelrad, MD, MPH, Jana G Hashash, MD, MSc, #StevenItzkowitz and published in CGH🔥🔥 Follow this🧵

Next up in our AGA Research Scholar Award feature is Aaron Hecht MD PhD from @PennGiHep! His research explores diet's impact on gut bacteria in liver disease, predicting infection risks and advancing therapies. Learn more: ow.ly/K7TS50SR7rR 👨‍🔬🔬 #AGAResearchFoundation

We agree, Maria T. Abreu! AGA Leadership Summit and Advocacy Day are always great opportunities to make a difference in GI. We hope to see all of our AGA leaders again this year! Shazia Siddique MD MS Jana G Hashash, MD, MSc Kristle Lee Lynch, MD | Gastroenterology @ UPenn | Linda Ánh Vân Nguyễn MD

We’re privileged to support members like Joseph Sleiman, MD, Kathy Williams, MD, MS (she/her), Bianca Islam, MD, PhD, MSc (she/her) & Shazia Siddique MD MS in their careers and we want to help you thrive too. Take the first step with AGA leadership positions, open to physicians, researchers & trainees. ow.ly/YGzc50SYNVm

Congrats to Corey J Ketchem MD & Dr. Khan on your new role with Gastroenterology! Meet all 10 fellows selected as our 2024-2025 editorial fellows: gastro.org/news/meet-our-…

It's happening again: UnitedHealthcare's proposed “Gold Card” program – aka prior auth – will be implemented Oct. 1 but they have not shared any details. Maria T. Abreu writes about what this means for you & how we’re taking a stand for GI in Healio. ow.ly/bgiC50TaenO

🙏🏽 STAT for this important summary of how clinical algorithms can impact health disparities statnews.com/2024/09/03/emb… Looking forward to reading the rest of the series AHRQ

“Let’s remove race, and make sure we’re not causing harm to an already vulnerable and marginalized population.” Dr. Tiffani Johnson, MD, MSc Doctors use problematic race-based algorithms to guide care every day. Why are they so hard to change? buff.ly/4cSOXkK via STAT

Written by Katie Palmer Usha Lee McFarling with insights from: Jenny Tsai, MD, M.Ed Dr. Michelle E. Morse michellemorse Maia Hightower Darshali Vyas Mark Del Monte, JD Helen Burstin, MD (@helenburstinmd on IG & 🧵) Dr. Aletha Maybank Debra Patt Shyam Visweswaran Shazia Siddique MD MS

Congratulations Austin! CHIPS@Upenn Shazia Siddique MD MS

1/I've been sitting on this rage-🧵but it's less than 50d to the election, so... IF A PERSON WHO WAS PRESIDENT FOR 4 YEARS & TRIED TO REPEAL MY HEALTHCARE SAID HE HAD "CONCEPTS OF A PLAN" FOR ITS REPLACEMENT, I'D BE PISSED. You should too-it's YOUR healthcare! Read on.

📢 New R01 means that the May Lab at UCLA is looking to hire a new project coordinator to join our team! If you are interested in/have experience in colorectal cancer screening and health equity, please check it out! Job post: jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/3972?lang… May lab: